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About a month ago, I went to a workshop on creativity and prayer, facilitated by Vinita Hampton Wright.  I’d been reading Vinita’s latest novel, Dwelling Places, and I couldn’t wait to spend the day with her.  I love that novel, sentence by sentence–the way it’s shaped, the story it tells.  This woman has something to [...]

On Mother’s Day, I had to post this poem by Billy Collins. I first heard Collins read this poem, driving through a blizzard in Michigan with my family.  In a moment of raging, windy, white-out desperation, we turned on the radio, hoping for hope and a change in the weather, just over that hill, or [...]